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...Compared with current fastest flights of 4 hr. 55 min. and 6 hr. 55 min. respectively...
...year processor of frozen-potato products. This will be Consolidated's second acquisition in 1966 (the other: E. Kahn's Sons of Cincinnati, a meat processor with sales of $45 million) and the 44th since Cummings organized the company 26 years ago. Now the U.S.'s fastest-growing food processor, Consolidated will end its fiscal year next week with sales of $830 million and earnings of around $21 million, up 5% and 17% respectively...
What is Europe's fastest-growing industrial hub? Frankfurt? Milan? London? No, by the reports of bankers and industrialists, it is Antwerp, the inland Belgian port 55 miles up the River Scheldt from the North...
...last summer's A.A.U. championships. Snarled Snell: "I resent having anybody that young in my kind of race." He resented it a good deal more next day, when Ryun won the A.A.U. mile, beating the New Zealander to the tape in 3 min. 55.3 sec.-the fastest time ever recorded by an American...
...traditionally do not reach their peak before their mid-20s-Britain's Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4-min. barrier in 1954, and France's Michel Jazy, the current record holder, is 30. Ryun, at the tender age of 19, is already the second-fastest miler in history. In this month's Compton Invitational track meet at Los Angeles, he sped the distance in 3 min. 53.7 sec.-just .1 sec. off Jazy's world record. Afterward, he complained mildly that the official who was supposed to call out intermediate lap times...